Which Mendoza startup has raised the most in history?

In the midst of a pandemic, the Mendoza Egg Education startup closed a new round of investment with a contribution of $ 1 million, led by the investment fund DraperCygnus.

The project has already employed more than 100 people and has raised nearly $ 2 million in three rounds. This makes it the most fundraising Mendoza startup in history., after startup Eventioz, led by Pablo Aquistabpache, received $ 1.5 million from the Kaszek Ventures fund in 2013 and was subsequently sold to international Eventbrite.

Egg offers team education, breaking rules and paradigms, where the relationship with the teacher ceases to be vertical and the student becomes the protagonist, in the midst of overcrowded classrooms, with blackboards, hand in hand with technology. This is how the “cooperative” teaching method works, which brings encouraging results in the educational community of Mendoza and has many actors in the public and private sectors.

The mission of the egg, which has already reached more than 10,000 students, is to improve human cooperation by creating a social platform that allows people and organizations all over the world to develop any kind of business using the human cooperation algorithm.

This learning system was created and is continuously improved by Ignacio “Nacho” Gómez Portillo, doctor in physics and former scientist from Conicet whose doctoral thesis carried out in Barcelona provided science with the mathematical answer to the growth of collaborative organizations.

In 2015, Gómez Portillo with his wife Caroline Perez Mora, started the educational innovation center where they successively applied the method to the pre-university of medicine, obtaining extraordinary results: up to four times better performance of their students on the exam than other educational centers. Then they integrated pre-engineering and other careers, becoming the most popular in the city.

In 2018, Egg became the first startup invested by the recently founded Mendoza startup accelerator Embarca, with $ 50,000 and with the aim of applying the methodology to programming and digital marketing courses. Today, this organization trains more than 3,000 students in programming simultaneously and more than 10,000 users. If you add high schools, universities and other educational centers that use Egg as a method of learning.

Egg has grown into an international company that has integrated the method of physical class to virtual classrooms with the same performance and is used by well-known platforms in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, United States, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, Italy and Peru.